Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[lars strom]

Yes, Evinrude for Christmas..!!

[lars strom]

HMore UIM F1 - 2018

Late Saturday afternoon one of the three below is probably going to be the 2018 Formula 1 World Champion.

My heart is hoping for Erik Stark. He could be the first Swedish F1 Champion ever.. !!
Shaun is probably a safer pick. He is the points leader and need to finish fourth or better to be the champ but anything could happen.
Thani third picture is a big possibility also.

Stay tuned..






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Erik Stark won the race and Shaun finished third and is the 2018 UIM F1 World Champ.
Congratulations Shaun Torrente.

[lars strom]

My guess why the Caldwell CRT 2.5 did not race in the last UIM F1 race today.

Today's UIM F1 is a spec. engine class run by the pro-motor. You can only use the old Merc V6 that is not even sold from Mecury Racing anymore.
There is rules for how you can modify the powerhead and some teams have been disqualified for not following the rules.
There is no way all the other teams are going to allow someone to use the Caldwell CRT 2.5 engine when they can not do what they want to do on their own Merc powerhead.

[peterse90]

Yes, Evinrude for Christmas..!!

WOW! Neat to see the Johnson name is still alive and well - would make a great comeback story for us that grew up with outboards back in the 50's, 60's and 70's !!

[WaterZebra]

My guess why the Caldwell CRT 2.5 did not race in the last UIM F1 race today.

Today's UIM F1 is a spec. engine class run by the pro-motor. You can only use the old Merc V6 that is not even sold from Mecury Racing anymore.
There is rules for how you can modify the powerhead and some teams have been disqualified for not following the rules.
There is no way all the other teams are going to allow someone to use the Caldwell CRT 2.5 engine when they can not do what they want to do on their own Merc powerhead.

F1 teams have even bigger inventory problems than just power heads. Mercury Marine will cease production of ALL F1 components (mid sections, cowls, engines, props, gears, etc) after 2019. F1 has 3 choices:
(1) Change the rules -especially allowing aftermarket (2) Acquire aftermarket non-Mercury product sources (3) Make the big leap to 4 stroke power (not likely).
Either adapt (3 choices) or watch the sport eventually die. USA (APBA) blew off the idea of using "green motors" (Low emission 2 strokes) and kept using their old stuff until it wore out. Then, the boats started to sit in the garage, barn or driveway. They would never adapt to any kind of 4 stroke products because of the given weight penalty which would mean that speed records would never be broken again, etc. Tunnel boat racers should have taken pointers from the motocross guys. They made the leap to 4 strokes and kept on going.

[powerabout]

F1 teams have even bigger inventory problems than just power heads. Mercury Marine will cease production of ALL F1 components (mid sections, cowls, engines, props, gears, etc) after 2019. F1 has 3 choices:
(1) Change the rules -especially allowing aftermarket (2) Acquire aftermarket non-Mercury product sources (3) Make the big leap to 4 stroke power (not likely).
Either adapt (3 choices) or watch the sport eventually die. USA (APBA) blew off the idea of using "green motors" (Low emission 2 strokes) and kept using their old stuff until it wore out. Then, the boats started to sit in the garage, barn or driveway. They would never adapt to any kind of 4 stroke products because of the given weight penalty which would mean that speed records would never be broken again, etc. Tunnel boat racers should have taken pointers from the motocross guys. They made the leap to 4 strokes and kept on going.

Buy OMC F1 parts from Seaway, I'm sure they will supply them forever, choose your powerhead

[lars strom]

We can all see the Evinrude G2, but the location is maybe more interesting..
Picture credit: unknown

[nitro_rat]

We can all see the Evinrude G2, but the location is maybe more interesting..
Picture credit: unknown

Gone Merc hunting on their turf, huh?

[22R]

Maybe Lake X is missing it's 2 stroke roots......

22R

[GENE LANHAM]

Maybe Lake X is missing it's 2 stroke roots......

22R

Bunc of us saw it there a few weeks ago—-

[lars strom]

Bunc of us saw it there a few weeks ago—-

Yes I know but you did not take a picture of the Evinrude G2 at Lake X.
Here is one more.

[lars strom]

[lars strom]

[OMCAllTheWay]

USA (APBA) blew off the idea of using "green motors" (Low emission 2 strokes) and kept using their old stuff until it wore out. Then, the boats started to sit in the garage, barn or driveway. They would never adapt to any kind of 4 stroke products because of the given weight penalty which would mean that speed records would never be broken again, etc. Tunnel boat racers should have taken pointers from the motocross guys. They made the leap to 4 strokes and kept on going.

I was putting some serious thought into racing OPC again but I don’t think I will. As far as I can tell, OPC has no vision for the future. They aren’t thinking five or ten years down the road, but instead they are still “fighting yesterday’s war” as we say in my line of work. It’s time they accept green motors as the future and leverage what they can or OPC will be a faded memory.

[lars strom]